Archive for December, 2012

Certainly Hurricane Sandy, killer medicines from the New England Compounding Center, and the massacre of precious children at Newtown put fitting exclamation points to the horrors of the year 2012. Last January we predicted 2012 would be ‘The Age of Catastrophism,” and indeed it has been.

At year’s beginning, bloggerspheres were abuzz about the earth spinning out of shape and orbit. With record hunger in Africa, some people ate the raw flesh of dead elephants. By February, the U.S., Europe and the Middle East were suffering wretched winters. New diseases, cyclones and angry waters ravaged everywhere. Americans questioned the safety of our nuclear plants, as Japan tried to recover from its tsunami and floods. And China could not hide its heavily polluted waters.

In March, we watched aghast at Europe’s descent into austerity. Increasing volcano eruptions caused Extinction Protocol to warn the earth is in “a period of extreme volcanism” hurling its magnetic field toward polarity reversal by 2013.

Farmers and consumers in the U.S. raised national concern about Mad Cow Disease in farms and slaughter houses last April. Possibly contaminated meats were pulled from grocery shelves, and the government promised reforms. Severe drought attacked the southwest and still continues. Harsh tornadoes swept through the Midwest; and Japan’s radiation leaks now engulfs the Earth.

The first of continuing protests in Greece and Spain broke out in May over Germany’s continent-wide austerity program. Two unexplainable epidemics––whooping cough and massive fish kills grabbed our nation’s attention in May.

June brought harsh views of bee colony collapse, debilitated human family structures, as well as of broken American cities as harbingers of Earth’s near end. July witnessed explosions of cholera, polio and Ebola virus outbreaks in Africa and Asia. And the U.S. wilted in record-breaking hot weather and power outages.

By August, this unmitigated heat erupted into West Nile Virus and Swine Flu plagues across the U.S. And in September, the medical industry warned us that worse diseases were coming. Also Japanese and Pepco leaders admitted lying repeatedly about levels of radiation exposure in their country and now abroad.

Swiftly melting Antarctic ice caps convinced even some die-hard critics by October that Global Warming is real, and Americans awakened to growing dangers of our own nuclear power plants. In Europe suicides and infant abandonment soared. And the meningitis outbreak proved our nation’s medical system is broken.

NECC’s medical malfeasance was only topped by Hurricane Sandy’s drastic devastation of our Eastern shores in November. But both were superseded by the Sandy Hook killer’s rampage this month. Our Newspaper Boys and Girls Int’l warn of animal species vital to man’s existence continuously slip into extinction.

Every month brought more threats to our existence. Clearly, our only hope is in God. Christian messages command: “Look unto Me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I Am God, and there is none else (Isaiah 45: 22).”

NRA leaders demand the freedom to kill Americans and they don’t intend for politicians or courts to take away that ‘right.’ It is not the Second Amendment ‘rights’ they ‘worship,’ it is methods to murder Americans without punishment.

Whatever other purposes the Sandy Hook massacre served U.S. gun manufacturers, it increased their gun sales mightily. Now, unless officials enact laws, there will be more guns in streets, parks and schools––not less.

Joseph Pisani of AP, claims in ‘Gun Sales Surge In Wake Of Newtown Shooting As Panicked Enthusiasts Rush To Stock Up,’ writes: “The phones at gun shops across the country are ringing off the hook. Demand for firearms, ammunition and bulletproof gear has surged since the Dec. 14 massacre in Newtown, . . . sparked calls for tighter gun control measures, especially for military-style assault weapons. . .

“Assault rifles are sold out across the country. Rounds of .223 bullets, like those used in the AR-15 Bushmaster rifle used in Newtown, are scarce. . . Store owners . . .have never seen demand like this before.”

In ‘Tragedy’s Legacy,’ Dr. Garen J. Wintermute, writing for the ‘New England Journal of Medicine,’ correctly points out: “The United States has become an extreme example of what could well be termed ‘global gunning.’ With less than 5% of the world’s population, we own more than 40% of all the firearms that are in civilians’ hands: 250 million to 300 million weapons, nearly as many as we have people, and they are not going away anytime soon.”

He also argues: “On average, 88 Americans died every day from firearm violence in 2011, and another 202 were seriously injured. In 2012, for the first time, there will probably be more firearm-related homicides and suicides than motor vehicle traffic fatalities.”

Tragically AP reports that Chicago has reached a milestone with 500 gun violence homicides. Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy spoke of the tragic milestone: “a tragic number that is reflective of the gang violence and proliferation of illegal guns that have plagued some of our neighborhoods.”

An example of the NRA’s longed-for privilege to murder is the ‘Stand Your Ground’ laws in Florida where two young men were gunned down this year by killers claiming they had ‘the right’ to ‘protect themselves.’

If national and state officials do not put a stop to this perpetual gun mania, our nation as we know and love it will soon be over-taken by violent chaos. As Bible prophecies foretell: “. . . the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence (Ezekiel 7: 23).” Yet the power of prayer is greater than the NRA’s!

Rev. Repriestly: What on earth is it child? Settle down! Its noon prayer time!

John J., Jr.: Taryn from the i.e.plexus.com, them folks that help Jael place the blogs, she called and said that she can’t get Jael to do a Christmas blog. She asks if the Newspaper Boys and Girls Int’l can do Christmas this year.

Sissy: Yea, and I told John we can do it. We can celebrate Our Lord’s birthday. Me and Allie and Farley we got songs and a play. We’re ready now!

Rev. Repriestly: Did she say why Jael won’t do it this year? Let me call Jael. Hello, Jael yes, yes, its me. The kids are upset over a call from Miss Taryn.
I see, yes, yes, I understand. Is it ok then if we try to carry on? Yes, we’ll do that.

Sissy: We’d she say? Is she coming? Can we go on with our play then?

Rev. Repriestly: Well, she’s praying about what happened at Sandy Hook, and for what officials gonna do, so we can do Christmas this year, as long as we include Bros. John, Jude and Michael and the prayer partners, and that we pray for that community and those on the East Coast still suffering from Hurricane Sandy.

John, Jr.: Ok we’ll go get them. Come on Sissy, we’ll rehearse too! Brother Jude: O.k. kids. Thanks for the invite. Me, Ethel and the girls, Michael and John are coming soon. Now do you kids know what the Bible says about the birth of The LORD Jesus? Do you know His mother’s name, and the name of His earthly father? Do you know what the wise men brought Him, and what He did when He was John, Jr., age to prove that He was a wise young men?

Allie: Course we do Brother Jude. Rev. Repriestly holds our Bible Study every week, and we have homework from our online Bible lessons.

John J. Jr.: Besides all that, we have asked The LORD Jesus into our hearts, and we are living to obey His Word. He’s not just in our heads, He’s in our hearts.

Brother Jude: What do you think, Brother Michael?

Brother Michael: Let’s go over some Bible verses and then pray before they do the play and sing: “John 3: 14-17 – For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world but that the world through Him might be saved. For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved.”

Brother John: Dear God, we come to You in The Name of The LORD Jesus Christ. We pray for the families in Sandy Hook who lost loved ones in this Satanic attack last week. Please bless them to heal, and to keep their faith in You. And, Father, please send help to our fellow citizens still suffering from the ravages of Hurricane Sandy. Father, please bless our nation to return to You in sincerity and truth. In The Holy Name of Our Savior, The LORD Jesus Christ. Amen!

With each of the twenty Sandy Hook babies plummeted with bullet barrages from NRA’s sponsored A-15 military semi-automatic rifle, Wayne LaPierre, Executive Vice President of the National Rifle Association, blamed the carnage on everyone else but NRA’s push for unlimited gun ownership.

‘It’s the Media’s Fault’––David Taintor of Talking Points Memo.com writes: “Wayne LaPierre accused the media of “rewarding” mass killers with ‘wall-to-wall’ coverage and called news organizations ‘silent enablers, if not co-conspirators”’ in the violence.” ‘They’ conspired? Is this political doublespeak?

LaPierre also asks: “How many more copycats are waiting in the wings for their moment of fame, from a national media machine that rewards them with the wall-to-wall attention and sense of identity that they crave, while provoking others to try to make their mark?” So the media manufactured and sold those guns?

No wait. The famed head of some five million NRA members said its also the media’s fault for sheltering the entertainment and video game industries. “There exists in this country, sadly, a callous, corrupt and corrupting shadow industry that sells and sows violence against its own people through vicious, violent video games with names like ‘Bullet Storm,’ ‘Grand Theft Auto,’ ‘Mortal Combat’ and ‘Splatterhouse,” LaPierre groaned.

So what is LaPierre’s answer? He wants MORE guns in schools. He insists the federal government funds armed guards at every school in this country. Hmm. Who profits from such an ‘innovation’? Why gun stores and gun manufacturers, of course! At about $ 1,500 per assault rifle at thousands of elementary, junior high and high schools, and walla! the gun industry would add millions more to the billions they have already profited from blood sacrificing guns!

Thankfully New York City Mayor, Michael Bloomberg answers LaPierre: “Their press conference was a shameful evasion of the crisis facing our country. Instead of offering solutions to a problem they have helped create, they offered a paranoid, dystopian vision of a more dangerous and violent America where everyone is armed, and no place is safe.”

‘Washington Post’ columnist Eugene Robinson also expressed outrage: “Absurd, unbelievable, tragic, obscene — I grope for words to describe the [NRA]’s proposal for how the nation should respond to last week’s slaughter in Newtown: More guns in the schools. The idea is so insane.”

Our nation’s politicians have been fearful of confronting the NRA for years. But if this is the best the ferocious NRA ‘beast’ can do, then the man who butchered twenty babies in Connecticut last week isn’t the only coward around!

As online Bible lessons teaches: “The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle (78: 9).” Thus, a nation which only has cowards as leaders eventually falls.

Other interesting questions: Is the NRA preparing for 21st Century Civil War in the United States? If not, why do so many of their members need military style automatic multi-killing rifles that can unload “30 bullets in 45 seconds”?

According to public relations advertisements from stores and suppliers, the guns that mowed down those twenty kindergartners and first graders were manufactured for use by Army patrolmen protecting overseas military bases:

Aren’t most of the men and women purchasing these guns civilians? Then why do they need weapons designed for soldiers fighting in wars? Ads for the ‘M4-As Type Patrolman’s Carbine – For soldiers on patrol’ claim: “The Bushmaster M4A2 Type Patrolman’s Carbine .223 Remington Semiautomatic Rifle features a chrome-lined military profile barrel, an aircraft-quality aluminum receiver and an outer coating of military-specification manganese phosphate.”

Only statements by Smith and Wesson’s very popular ‘Bushmaster AR-15’––the semi-automatic rifle loaded with 100-bullet clips used to murder those babies in Sandy Hook––include wording for: “law enforcement, military and home-defense applications to hunting and competition shooting.” OK, so what kind of ‘homes’ or ‘hunting’ objects need this kind of ‘defense’?

In his article ‘The 5 Deadliest Guns You Can Buy Online—Legally,’ Josh Marks asks: “Will we demand our political leaders take action [about] America’s lax gun control laws? Or will we let the NRA and their followers continue to dominate the discussion by dismissing guns as the problem or even arguing that every private citizen should own a gun? Should the children have been packing? Shopping malls. Houses of worship. Schools. Cinemas. A mass shooting every other week. Will we become numb to what should be shocking?”

Good questions! Moreover, we ask: What is the purpose for so many guns? Again, is it for some sort of new Civil War in our country? Is it to stir up such fear that Americans will surrender to those who weld this gun power? Or is it to break the political back of what is said to be the greatest democracy in the world?

Or do the gun toters intend to turn us into an exclusively violent society, one where no neighborhood or city will be safe. Such a society invites God’s total destruction. Bible prophecies say of Noah’s time: “. . . the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth (Genesis 6: 13).” We can only forestall His Holy wrath by shackling these killer guns now!

Since facts are few, do you think we should ask questions? Or should we just expect answers to be found in the ‘intensity’ of mainstream journalism’s reporting on the Sandy Hook massacre? Don’t you think we should ask?

After several mass killings in this decade, why has the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) not had a permanent director in six years? Has the National Rife Association (NRA) blocked this appointment in Congress?

Why are cars registered, numbered, and licensed upon purchase and yearly, and fuels for them taxed federally, and guns are not licensed or taxed consistently on purchase, nor is ammunition for these death machines taxed or accounted for?

Why does the NRA arrange the election of certain people in the Congress and Senate? What political interests would gun owners and gun manufacturers have for such control? Do they run politicians, or do the people who elect them?

Why does the NRA push back against gun control when over 70% of their members support calls for sensible gun accountability? Who runs the NRA, its dues-paying members, or profit-making gun dealers and gun manufacturers?

Why do present laws demand background checks on fire arms sold over store counters, but not for those sold at gun shows or over the internet? In fact, why should killers (such as alleged Denver theater shooter James Holmes) be able to buy guns, quick murder rifles and other unlimited killing machines over the internet? Why is it possible to buy weapons of annihilation on the internet?

Why are there laws for building codes; laws demanding owners clean up their dog’s poop; laws about car speed and seat belts; laws demanding registration of domestic pets; laws for fire codes; laws to keep poisons, rot, molds, etc. out of foods in grocery stores; laws to keep animals and their meat safe in packing plants; laws regulating the sale and distribution of liquors and cigarettes;

Laws about tags on clothing; laws against trash littering streets and highways; laws that control hospitals, doctors, medicines, and drugs in the health industry; laws about crowd control; laws about tags on mattresses; laws about the number of rest rooms in restaurants, department stores and other public places; laws about the number of occupants in an auditorium or party room, etc., etc.––

And NO enforceable laws for the annual registration, control, inspection and federal, as well as annual, taxation of gun killing machines? So, if governments can enact all of these and more laws––most of which have little to do with saving lives––why can’t our leaders enact better controls of these death machines?

Does this imbalance of laws in ‘the greatest nation on earth’ make sense to any sane person? Can the NRA answer that question at least? Does God’s Word have the answer? Did He not say in wholesale Christian Bibles: “. . . choose you this day whom ye will serve . . . (Joshua 24: 15)? Will our lawmakers serve us with good laws that make common sense, or will they serve the NRA?

The governor of New York spoke of Hurricane Sandy as the second ‘storm of a lifetime’ in two years. Friday’s death knell against precious children was the third mass murder in our country this year? Their horror screams of a modern America that has become today’s untamed 19th century wild, wild west.

The James Holmes shot out at a Denver movie theater in July, and the Sikh temple Murders in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, in August, also don’t include the scores of ‘everyday’ shootings across the country.

As ‘Mother Jones’ points out in ‘A Guide to Mass Shootings in America,’ the overwhelming majority of the 62 mass killings of four of more victims in the last twenty years in some 30 states from Massachusetts to Hawaii were carried out by men who owned their guns legally. How is this possible in a civilized society?

Many of these deaths could have been avoided if the federal government had ‘common sense’ regulations about gun control. Nicholas D. Kristof writes in ‘Do We Have the Courage to Stop This?’: “The fundamental reason kids are dying in massacres like this one is not that we have lunatics or criminals — all countries have them — but that we suffer from a political failure to regulate guns. Children ages 5 to 14 in America are 13 times as likely to be murdered with guns as children in other industrialized countries.”

Kristof cites laws protecting children, such as: building codes, school bus standards, tests for bus drivers, food safety in cafeterias, toy inspections, etc. But our country has scant regulations of guns. He argues: “More Americans die in gun homicides and suicides in six months than have died in the last 25 years in every terrorist attack and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq combined.”

Those who retort “gun control attacks our freedoms” must know this is not about freedom, it is about gun industry money. AP reporters Eileen Sullivan and Jack Gillum report: “As of October 2012, there were 50,812 retail gun dealers––that’s 3,303 more than in 2009. . . Sturm Ruger & Co. Inc., one of the nation’s largest gun manufacturers, . . . say demand is still outpacing production.”

In ‘America’s Gun Industry is Booming,’ for GlobalPost.com Jennifer Wilmore agrees: “A recent Gallup survey indicates 47 percent of American adults keep guns.” She says that American manufacturers produce most of those guns, and that those same gun-makers are “the world’s leading weapons exporter[s].”

America must decide if she wants to go back to those wild west days, or if she wants to remain the modern beacon of peace for the world. As used Christian Bibles promises: “Blessed is the nation whose God is The LORD; and the people whom He hath chosen for His own inheritance (Psalm 33: 12).”

Global Warming, Hurricane Sandy, and this week’s deaths of 20 precious children indicates our nation is losing favor with God. If we continue selling death machines for profit, enabling mad-men to sacrifice children in such unrelenting slaughter, we should expect more signs of judgment!

Jael Ever: In these times of sorrow, what can we say that will bring comfort to the families shattered by this tragedy, to their neighbors and to our nation? What solace, what reasons, what future, what Scriptures come to mind?

Rev. Repriestly: Isaiah offers: “Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith Your God (40: 1).” We know that these acts of violence against innocent children come solely from the depths of hell. But God’s Word says “Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good (Romans 12: 12).”

From the depths of our hearts, Father we cry out for the strength to overcome these satanic acts by changing the ways of our nation toward better laws to combat such violent mindsets and grievously malevolent acts.

Brother John: Father, we pray for bereaved loved ones, and for the leaders of our nation. According to Your Word, please give our leaders the wisdom to take us away from this death-filled violence, and toward a nation of Your blessed peace.

As Your Word says in John 10: 10: “The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” These blessed children were killed, and stolen from their families, in attempts to destroy families and communities and disquiet our nation’s peace. We call upon You that we may know and receive more of the Life that Christ attained for us on His Cross.

Brother Michael: Father this killer of innocent children was a coward. He came from a dark place, hidden from the world’s understanding. But You know Father where he came from, and who sent him. As You say in John 8: 12 and 12: 36, help us to follow Your Son, The Light of The World, that we may be children of light, not of darkness, that we may not go to the dark place of the killer’s abode.

John J., Jr. and Sissy: Dear God, we pray for the children who lived through this bloody attack in their school. As You promise in The Bible, please heal their memories and emotions: “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on Thee: because he trusteth in Thee. Trust ye in The LORD for ever: for in The LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength: (Isaiah 26: 3 – 4).”

Jael: And Father please forgive us all. As parents and churches, we have not prayed as we should. Please forgive our leaders who did not fight harder to overcome gun violence in our homes and on our streets. Help them to do so now!

Please forgive us for not falling on our knees, and crying out for You to protect our neighborhoods from such unmitigated assaults, for not crying to You for our children to be spared from this mindless devotion to weapons of death.

As You promise in Christian prayer books : “But there is forgiveness with Thee, that Thou mayest be feared Psalm 130: 4.” Only from You can we receive this forgiveness, and only from You can come the courage to change!

(Note: This Blog was in Worlds Collide. We think it is important enough to repeat it here.) Various scientists, journalists and scholars urgently warn world leaders to decrease dependence upon killer robots, or else these man-made machines will soon annihilate the human race.

But, as they race for world domination, said leaders ignore these modern-day prophets. Political and industrial leaders seem to take their orders from a silent hidden few pulling the world’s economic strings. Those few want ever-more sophisticated robots to slowly twist the death screws on 21st century populations.

In addition to making phone calls, running machinery, taking polls, and fighting wars––all jobs men and women once filled––robots now kill people. The problem is: upon whose will do they kill. Theirs or their makers?

Economist Paul Krugman, New York Times columnist, points out in: ‘Robots and Robber Barons’ exclaims that robotic technology is not only stealing workers’ jobs, they are greatly increasing the wealth of that silent few. He points to computer manufacturers bringing production back to the U.S. because “the motherboard is basically made by robots so cheap Asian labor is no longer” needed. The same decreasing human involvement is taking place across the planet.

In ‘Losing Humanity: The Case Against Killer Robots,’ Human Rights Watch insists: “Governments should preemptively ban fully autonomous weapons because of the danger they pose to civilians in armed conflict . . . ‘killer robots’ would be able to choose and fire on targets without human intervention.”

While the United States now leads in robot technology, other countries––i.e. China, Germany, Israel, South Korea, Russia, Great Britain, etc.––are not far behind. Steve Goose, Arms Division Director at Human Rights Watch, says: “Giving machines the power to decide who lives and dies on the battlefield would take technology too far.” But these warnings may already be too late!

Physicists Hugo De Garis, refers to these robots as AIs or Artificial Intelligence. He says the major war this century will be between AIs and people, and predicts AIs will win. On ‘Prophets of Doom’ for the History Channel, De Garis explains that these mechanical beings are soon millions of levels smarter than people, and will, on their own, decide to kill billions so they can rule.

The Book of Revelation tells of a False Prophet who arises in support of the Satanic antiChrist ‘beast’. This devious religious leader will convince people to build a robotic ‘image’ of the Satanic anti-Christ called the beast: “ . . . saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, . . . And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed (13: 14 – 15).”

Two thousand years ago, through the inspiration of God’s Holy Spirit, Apostle John wrote about a man-made Killer Robot empowered to give people the choice to worship Satan’s anti-Christ or the AI Robot will kill them!

(Note: This Blog was in Worlds Collide. We think it is important enough to repeat it here.) Various scientists, journalists and scholars urgently warn world leaders to decrease dependence upon killer robots, or else these man-made machines will soon annihilate the human race.

But, as they race for world domination, said leaders ignore these modern-day prophets. Political and industrial leaders seem to take their orders from a silent hidden few pulling the world’s economic strings. Those few want ever-more sophisticated robots to slowly twist the death screws on 21st century populations.

In addition to making phone calls, running machinery, taking polls, and fighting wars––all jobs men and women once filled––robots now kill people. The problem is: upon whose will do they kill. Theirs or their makers?

Economist Paul Krugman, New York Times columnist, points out in: ‘Robots and Robber Barons’ exclaims that robotic technology is not only stealing workers’ jobs, they are greatly increasing the wealth of that silent few. He points to computer manufacturers bringing production back to the U.S. because “the motherboard is basically made by robots so cheap Asian labor is no longer” needed. The same decreasing human involvement is taking place across the planet.

In ‘Losing Humanity: The Case Against Killer Robots,’ Human Rights Watch insists: “Governments should preemptively ban fully autonomous weapons because of the danger they pose to civilians in armed conflict . . . ‘killer robots’ would be able to choose and fire on targets without human intervention.”

While the United States now leads in robot technology, other countries––i.e. China, Germany, Israel, South Korea, Russia, Great Britain, etc.––are not far behind. Steve Goose, Arms Division Director at Human Rights Watch, says: “Giving machines the power to decide who lives and dies on the battlefield would take technology too far.” But these warnings may already be too late!

Physicists Hugo De Garis, refers to these robots as AIs or Artificial Intelligence. He says the major war this century will be between AIs and people, and predicts AIs will win. On ‘Prophets of Doom’ for the History Channel, De Garis explains that these mechanical beings are soon millions of levels smarter than people, and will, on their own, decide to kill billions so they can rule.

The Book of Revelation tells of a False Prophet who arises in support of the Satanic antiChrist ‘beast’. This devious religious leader will convince people to build a robotic ‘image’ of the Satanic anti-Christ called the beast: “ . . . saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, . . . And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed (13: 14 – 15).”

Two thousand years ago, through the inspiration of God’s Holy Spirit, Apostle John wrote about a man-made Killer Robot empowered to give people the choice to worship Satan’s anti-Christ or the AI Robot will kill them!